Mental Note: Imitate Richard Weston and make a sky collection.
Category: photos
I’m really enjoying the Atlanta Time Machine, a collection of juxtaposed old & new photos of Atlanta houses, neighborhoods, and skyscrapers, along with postcards, ephemera, etc. I just learned that the first Waffle House ever built is now occupied by the familiar Hunan Express.
Photos of abandoned asylums. These in particular were from the Kirkbride era of hospital design, to go along with rehabilitative theories of moral treatment.
Sofa Free is a photo collection of sofas left up for grabs.
Recent Flickr groups I like: Tea Sketches is tea stains + illustration, and Items We Carry is what people bring along in their pockets. Here’s what I carry.
Mickey Smith’s photographs of bound journals. I like the installations, too.
“The typological arrayÄôs inherent ability to depict prevalence and repetition make it the perfect technique for examining the excess, redundancy, and meaningless freedom of our current age of consumption.”
And I’m back
I’m back from hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Go look at my photos from the past 2 months and 1000 miles. I’ll be easing back into regular duty here over the next couple weeks, as I mull over what new directions I’d like to take the website and my life in general. It’s good to be home.
Some old photos of shelters in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I was surprised by how much younger and newer everything looks.
A pretty cool collection of experimental thumb pianos. I always wanted to make an mbira (aka thumb piano aka kalimba) since I found out they existed. Just one of those projects I forgot about that I need to re-add to my list. I saw Bob Becker play one in concert at PASIC one year, I think back in 2001. Of course, because Bob Becker is who he is, it was amazing.
A0 magazine is a photojournal printed on 5 sheets of gigantic A0 paper, with stitching down the spine. I love it. [via typeforyou]
I’m Too Sad to Tell You, a collection of self-portraits of people in tears. [via port2port]
Photos from the Eighth Annual Harbin Ice and Snow World in Harbin, China. The photographer was also there in 2003 and 2005. [via veer]
Artists, illustrators, designers, and creative folk share the stuff on their desks. I like this voyeuristic peering into other people’s minds sort of thing. Reminds me of the Flickr tags whatsinmybag/whatsinyourbag.
I like this collection of photographs called Wee Planets. Each photo is a panorama stitched and warped in a way that makes the scene look like a little globe floating in the void. Some of my favorites are the Eiffel planet, glass building planet, Louvre planet, and the Luxor obelisk planet. [via dooce]
Interview with Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield. Interesting ideas there about being at the forefront of photojournalism, as the Flickr community can be much more agile than the press.
Mark Larson 
